routine

1. 1.

   found in the ordinary course of events

   “a placid everyday scene”

   “it was a routine day”

   “there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute”

   Synonymseverydaymundanequotidianunremarkableworkaday

   Similarordinary

Other forms of routine

plural

routines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about routine

What does routine mean?

routine means "an unvarying or habitual method or procedure". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in routine?

routine has 2 syllables: rou-tine. The stress falls on "tine". In IPA it is /ɹuˈtin/.

What is another word for routine?

Close synonyms include modus operandi, act, number, turn, bit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is routine a common word?

routine is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with routine?

24 words rhyme with routine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.